Rotary Gap Design

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Rotary Gap Design
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:57:34 -0500
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From:  Michael Tucknott [SMTP:Michael.Tucknott-at-virgin-dot-net]
Sent:  Sunday, August 09, 1998 3:31 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Rotary Gap Design

Tesla List wrote:
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> From:  Andrew Chin [SMTP:chinny-at-ozemail-dot-com.au]
> Sent:  Wednesday, August 19, 1998 10:58 AM
> To:  'tesla-at-pupman-dot-com'
> Subject:  Rotary Gap Design
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> Hey all.
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> Just wondering whether anyone has designed a rotary gap with two rotors
> instead of one rotor with stationary electrodes.  What I'm trying to picture
> here is two rotors with X electrodes. The rotors are mounted like they were
> gears, but instead the rotors spin in the same direction.  The relative
> velocity of the electrodes is then doubled so quenching would
> presumably be higher.  Overheating of the stationary electrode would then
> be redundant.

Hi Andrew
I thought this sounded familiar in my Colorado Springs Notes(1899-1900)
Tesla him self talks of his break device which comprised of two toothed
wheels moving in oposite direction.
"In this form a small number of teeth was found sufficient for a
great number of breaks and the arc could not follow from one to an 
adjacent tooth."
I think that the power source for this was clock work but I`ll have to
read my Springs notes again.

Just a comment no more.
Cheers Mike Tucknott